Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-11-19


But TO the feathered Kingdom, comment no
"fnrder,"
It's cruel, cold biood. heartless murder.
49,
A dayor two since | was sauntering
around looking for some kind of past
tino, when, by singular chance of
good iaek, a colored youth shouted at
me and said, "Just peep through
here" and he pointed at the crack
OF fence. | looked all around tosee
If anybody was looking at me, and
seeing that there was not, made a
sneak toward the fence and saw lot
of men inside standing around a
small ring as IL a snake fight was
going on. told the boy to hold his
breath for time as / was certain
thatan item would surely be revealed
before many more moments. The
boy caught his nose between his fin
gers in order to keep from smuggling,
and in very short time two men
came out, each having game rooster
In his hands. They both leaned over
the side of the ring and each one let
his chicken go. The roosters had
little corks on the side of their legs
lnnd sticking out at the ends of the
corks were small sharpened
wires. | don't know what these
wires were for, but heard one of the
men say to the other, eve don't
want these birds to kill each otherv'
NO." said the other man, ave only
want to try their qualities Well,
the colored youth and me stood peep
ing through our cracks for nearly an
hour, and such fun as we saw has
never been surpassed in GAINESVILLE.
After it was all over made up my
mind that some excellent game
chickens were owned in and around
this little city of seven hills. The
chickens are like the people, intelli-
gent, plucky and good in every
sense. am not rowdy, but l
would like excrusiatingly well to see
good chicken fight on the "dead
square, where would not be COM
PEELED to sneak around to witness it
The fact is that think such q battle
we'll advertised in the CHRONICLE
would draw a large crowd.
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The agitation question among the
GAINESVILLE beauties for the winter is
"what WILDE the style? In'Mrs. Clev-
Gland the American people have a
woman whose common sense, tact
and art are infinitely superior to
those Of Queen Victoria, and she is
altogether worthy Of setting an ex-
ample in dress which others can fol-
low. In Mrs. Cleveland a conspicu-
Gus modesty has always been present,
and the quiet dignity she possesses is
very much the result Of her close
fitting, high neck dresses. She has
worn very few costumes which
could display her beautiful shoulders.
Washington society has determined
that this winter shall be noticeable
for its high neck dresses, and what
Washington does In this re-
spect is likely to be followed
by other and more conservative
cities. A well known lady Of this
city recently appeared at reception
in a handsome black velvet, cut
square in the neck, and the creamy
lace that filled in the space was ex-
| tremely graceful. With her rich
auburn hair caught in low knot,
she never looked handsomer. Her
dress might well be taken as model.
Ak
Only day or two since | happened
to be passing by one of the finest
church edifices in GAINESVILLE when
by chance heard loud voice call
ing, "Come here, l say, come here,
stop, and let me out. / heard win.
dows rafting and a loud voice
shouted "come in here quick and LEI
me out" listened for a time; and
looked up again at the window when
the same loud voice called forrelease
4 I passed on and some hours Later
learned much to my regret that DIR
Sears was shut up in his church ant
that the janitor had gone off with thu
, KEYS. How he got out l failed t.
| learn; but / understand he is free
man now,
/ went to church last Tuesday t
see wedding and / was complied t
sit for nearly an hour and look at tn
preacher before the victims arrived
l noticed just behind theminister tn
dirtiest sett of window sills l eve
say in first-class church. The Jan